Author: Tim Moss
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8 months, 10,000km and Half Way There
We started cycling last August and aim to be back this Christmas which means that, last month, we reached the half way point of our trip: 8 months in. We also clocked 6,000 miles on our odometers, 10,000km. This means that we have at last qualified for our own database: Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ). We…
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Escape from India: The Movie
Those of you that have followed this blog in recent weeks will know that we’ve been having a good whinge about our time in India. The rose tinting of hindsight has already made it start to seem like a month of humorous chaos. Hopefully this 60-second film will convey some of the madness. Highlights include…
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Why are there no water buffalo in South Korea?
They weren’t on the baggage carousel and Oversized Baggage seemed dormant. I found someone official looking and used gestures to indicate that we were looking for two bicycles. He radioed a friend, turned and waved. At the other end of the baggage haul were two more officials waving back at us holding what looked distinctly like…
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Expedition Travel Insurance
Complete listings of all the best travel insurance companies for expeditions and adventure. Including: cycle touring, mountaineering, climbing, Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland icecap. Updated February 2020 Expedition travel insurance is a topic about which I have received a lot of emails. People struggling to get cover for trips of a long duration, particularly cycling tours,…
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Polar 101: Everything You Need to Know About Arctic and Antarctic Expeditions
Well, perhaps that’s a bit of an exaggeration but here is a collection of articles that I have written about travelling in the Arctic and Antarctic. UPDATE: Download a copy of my new ebook How To Get To The North Pole now >> I’m not a polar explorer, or even a “polar adventurer”, but I…
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Escape from India
India has been difficult for us, as anyone following our tweets or the undertones of recent blog posts will know. This is not to say that it is not a wonderful and fascinating country. Even from our brief weeks here, seen through the prism of sickness and stress, it is abundantly clear that this is…
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You’ve Got to be Careful in India
They say you’ve got to be careful in India. Everyone’s out to rip you off. Even the locals get overcharged and they’ll see you coming a mile off. You can’t trust any food and don’t even think about trying the tap water. Even the purified stuff gets tainted by leaky sewage pipes and as little…
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Four Examples of (the lack of) Personal Space in India
The thing which I have found hardest about cycling through India is dealing with the entirely different rules of etiquette here. The concept of personal space seems to be alien. As an introvert, this has been very tiring. Here are a few examples from our experiences so far. Please do share any stories of your…
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Our video about cycling through Persia and Arabia
Our last two months’ cycling has been through some wonderfully historic areas of the world, principally Persia (now Iran) and Arabia (in our case, the United Arab Emirates and Oman), and we have made a short video of our time there. Personally, my favourite so far. In the space of a week, we experienced a…
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Inside Iran: Images from the Islamic Republic
Before setting off to cycle around the world, there was one country that we both looked forward to more than anywhere else: Iran. Here is a little taster of what we found when we got there… Cycling in an Iranian winter We cycled approximately 900 miles in Iran, from the northwest to the south. It…
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Honk Once for Hello, Twice for P*** Off
I am developing an involuntary reflex. At the sound of a horn, without volition, my right arm rises into the air. Though this may happen against my will, I am quite aware of the cause. Almost every day for the last six months, I have spent several hours at the right hand side of a…